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AT 15, Alison Graber has jumped with both feet and all her
-vocal chords into the crap game that is the record business.
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The Argyle Secondary School
grade 10 student, a graduate of the
Nanci: Davis Schoo! of Pop Sing-
ing, has just cut her first solo
single‘record.

In the Middle is a breezy slice of

Top. “40 pop sing with a voice rich--

and’ $ultry;, beyond: its years ‘and
“backed with a host of local studio
icians':-bolstered| with the
hig ‘profile likes: of Idle Eyes’
assist Miles Foxx Hill. —
3X-Crocus alumni

Hermann

in a. ‘ong: list of Van-
~ independent record

“the ‘Middle:

is currently.

oe radio stations hs
“quality necessary to separate her
from the run of the mili,’”: says _

Larry: Pink: and. Mare :
“document. the. angst and’ mercurial «
- changes: peculiar to the mid-point -

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News Reporter

vocals on a demo tape of In the -

Middle when Alison was. recom- : . .

mended,

“We were. so pleased with the:
results that we decided to do the
single."’

The song, a combined. effort: of °
Fruhm, Kelly and Peter Silvester,

is unabashedly aimed at the hor-: ©

mone-charged .10 to 18-year-old
female market. Bubblegum. lyrics

between childhood and teénhood.

-_-- Alison - herself sings. with: the.’
~ mixture of. bubbling joy and: con- :

fusion: to! which’ the song's lyrics.

iS. allude.

In the Middle is ‘the. Lynn Valley”

. teenager's second : fedtured song.

‘pan jingle; prodwction : factory

fou led by: “Fruhm’ and Thomas

‘The, latter’ “oft the two, partners:
said: “Thomas K, Thomas was only

She was the lead singer in a record

_ produced from the,..1983- 84° “play

Skool.
“Her” voice has: ‘that ‘unique’:

Alison’s former. voice instructor ~

‘Nanci Davis,-‘‘and she has more

Stage presence and charisma than'I *
have ever seen in a girl her age.

a Audiences just love her."’

. In, the. Middle is. available at.

: Lynn -Valley’s Your Humble Ser-
vant: Record Store and: Sam’s Re

cords at Capilano Mall.

alenysiease >

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ALISON . GRABER,
Secondary School student, recently
recorded her first.solo record. The

_ 15-year-old’s single In the Middle.

is a top 40 pop song,: backed. by

- Jocal musicians.

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